The Son of PryThing is a beautiful looking tool to start off with. But if that is not enough add pattern welded steel or go all out for the mini damascus version. The Satin Sumo is equally well designed and also has a pattern welded version.
The guy who makes all these even has a blog.
Now [...]
Monthly Archive for July, 2007
Park Tool Website has good bike service docs
Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 27th, 2007
Park Tool Website has a section on how to do most of the service needed to keep a bike up and running well. I spent some time looking for good tuning info on my derailers and this was the only site I found that explained everything in enough detail to be truly useful. My bearing [...]
It looks like I will be able to get a reasonable amount of exercise here with very little riding on highways. The Des Plains river trail runs for 31 miles through various Lake county forest preserves. It’s also much nicer to ride than the bike trail I found last week that runs farther east, requiring [...]
I just love technology. I have my cell phone tethered to my old laptop as a modem by bluetooth. All I have to do is tell my computer to dial and it seizes control of my phone to get me a network connection. As long as my phone is somewhere in this booth I should [...]
More great HDR photos
Posted in Photography on Jul 19th, 2007
Here is a flickr gallery of HDR shots of a plane graveyard out in Mojave.
I have been meaning to write up some of my experiences and thoughts from my drive out to Wisconsin. In all it wound up being just over 2400 miles from my place in Santa Cruz to the faire here in Kenosha, WI and I did it in 6 days total. The vast majority of those [...]
Back on the net
Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 13th, 2007
I finally have what appears to be a stable internet connection again. It’s been only 2 weeks and I have felt serious withdrawal from it. I hope to get my pictures and whatnot posted early next week. I doubt that I will have any time to do that this weekend. The help that I hired [...]
still alive
Posted in Fair on Jul 5th, 2007
I made it to the faire site today after some 2400 miles. I have pictures and more to say, but posting from my cell phone is tedious. I expect that monday I will have the time to sort out abetter connection.